Engineering - General. -- n.d. -- Consists of information on culverts and gates; causes and remedies of erosion control and types of dams; small irrigation projects; slough bed irrigation; run-off data for small drainage basins; installation of sheet piling weirs; concrete cut-off walls; small dam spillways and possible erosion; and preparation of plans for small water developments.

Engineering - Construction of small water projects. -- n.d. -- Consists of diagrams re stock watering detail' and copy of article on small water conservation projects under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA).

Agriculture water control. -- 1939-1952. -- Consists of information re dugouts for range or pasture use and photograph of irrigation in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

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Legal and administrative - General. -- 1938-1940. -- Consists of memorandum on water rights for domestic projects and circular re phases of water administration, particularly re small water developments b W.L. Jacobson.

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Legal and administrative - Provincial. -- 1939. -- Consists of interviews with Alberta and Saskatchewan farmers re criticisms on individual water development projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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Articles. -- 1935-1941. -- Consists of papers on conservationof water on the prairies; advantages of small irrigation schemes; water development on the farm; water conservation by means of small projects.

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PFRA small water development surveys and summary sheets. -- 1943-1944

Individual irrigation projects - Alberta and Saskatchewan

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Individual projects. -- 1895-1920. -- Consists of map showing irrigation schemes in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1913); condensation of Water Resources Branch file re pioneer irrigation developments in the Bow River Basin (1895-1920); Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company statistics (1922-1948); list of dams and reservoirs for which applications not made (1892).

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Plans for individual irrigation schemes. -- 1913-1919

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Plans forindividual irrigation schemes. -- 1910-1918. Note: John Glenn built the first individual scheme and neighbour scheme at Midnapore in 1879. See M-3761-167 for more details.

Irvine and Willan. -- 1945. -- Consists of sketch plan of their schemes and drainage areas.

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Golden Valley Irrigation Farm. -- 1958. -- Owned by Robert Black and Harry Monio. Includes photograph and notes on interview with Mr. Black.

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Hooper and Huckvale. -- 1904-1916. -- Consists of application to divert water from Manyberries Creek and a memorial re section 13 of the irrigation map. Includes plan of scheme at ranch at Medicine Hat.

Company irrigation projects. -- 1895-1960. -- The series consists of records pertaining to the Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company; Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Irrigation Block, Western Section; CPR Irrigation Block, Eastern Section; Canada land and Irrigation Company, and projects near Calgary and Springbank.

Company irrigation project - General

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Historical. -- 1912-1960. -- Consists of notes and extracts from the Calgary Herald on irrigation in southern Alberta.

Canada Land and Irrigation Company. -- 1906-1933. -- Consists of part 1 of research paper on CLIC by W. Goodrich and Lawrence Burns. See also M-3761-80 below.

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Canada Land and Irrigation Company. -- 1906-1956. -- Consists of reports on CLIC; extracts from Who's Who; and information re farmers who lived and farmed on the CLIC project (1921-1925).

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Canada Land and Irrigation Company. -- 1913-1959. -- Consists of memo re development from 1926-1940; extracts from the London Times re CLIC and the Southern Alberta Land Company; N.M. Sutherland's supplement on Irrigation Project Operations (1924-1926; map of Medicine Hat area and various projects; and progress report by D.W. Hays, general manager (1949).

Springbank Irrigation Project and Calgary Irrigation Project. -- 1893-1958. - Consists of rough notes and historical sketches. Includes information about the Calgary Gas and Water Works Company and the Calgary Hydraulic Company.

Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District (LNID). -- 1922-1927. -- Consists of annual report and financial statement (1927); report on conditionsof LNID; G.R. Marnoch's recollections; report on seepage and alkali conditions in the Monarch and Macleod Units; and report of Land Settlement Department of the Irrigation Council (1922-1923).

Hydrometrics - Water supply. -- 1894-1960. -- Consists of scheduleof streams showing discharge and friction factors; schedule of appropriations against rivers, streams and lakes; report on stream measurements and their value in irrigation development; and report on water resources of the St. Mary, Milk, Belly and Waterton Rivers.

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Hydrometrics - Water supply. -- 1927-1955. -- Consists of tables of water supply distribution; graphs re reservoirs; report on Bow River watershed (1955); preliminary report on available data for Alberta and Saskatchewan (1927)

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Hydrometrics - Water supply. -- n.d. -- Consists of schedulesof applications and licences for water from the South Saskatchewan River and Oldman River drainage basins.

Agriculture - Productivity. -- 1908-1957. -- Consists of comparison of crops grown on dry land and irrigated land from 1908-1931; report on acreages under irrigation in Alberta and Saskatchewan; summaries of farm business by University of Alberta Economics division (1948-1949), etc.

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Agriculture - Livestock. -- 1924-1959. -- Consists of report on mechanical grazing; circular on feeder freight policy (1937); and memo on results of farming in Bow Slope area of the Eastern Irrigation District (1941).

Agriculture - Equipment and irrigation methods. -- 1917-1962. -- Consists of reports on dugouts, pumping plants, sprinkler systems, preparing land for irrigation, and on the planning and design of irrigation distribution systems.

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Agriculture - Water requirements. -- 1921-1961. -- Consists of reports on comsumption of water; graphs of water requirements for wheat and alfalfa; booklet on water requirements for Alberta crops (1930); consumptive use of water for agriculture (1940); and progress report of the irrigation substation at Vauxhall for 1949-1957.

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Agriculture - Land preparation. -- 1959. -- Consists of report on land development policies for proposed irrigated land in Saskatchewan.

Legal and administrative. -- 1905-1958

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Legal and administrative - General. -- 1905-1932. -- Consists of rough copy of report on relationship of water user to the irrigation district.

Legal and administrative - International. -- n.d. -- Consists of report re international reatures of irrigation; and description so St. Mary River and Milk River.

Economics. -- 1922-1958

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Economics - General. -- 1924-1958. -- Consists of report on economic value of irrigation in southern Alberta; comments on draft report of St. Mary and Milk Rivers Water Development Committee (1941); report on irrigated lands returns in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1941); radio broadcasts scripts re the story of irrigation in Alberta; etc.

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Economics - General. -- 1935-1951. -- Consists on reports on the economics of irrigation development in Alberta; report on the relationship of irrigation and community development; and summaries of farm businesses by types of farming from 1948 to 1949.

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Economics - Capital costs. -- n.d. -- Consists of information re distribution of costs and table of projects and their cost of construction.

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Economics - Effect of fertilizers on crops. -- 1928-1956. -- Consists of report on use of fertilizers; report on effect of consumptive ue of water on protein and phosphorus content of cereals and forage crops.

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Economics - Production and returns. -- 1922-1957. -- Consists of statistics re cost of production of various crops in Taber and Lethbridge (1950); table of crop distribution and yields; table of irrigation practices and yield data on Bow River Project.

Colonization and historical. -- 1910-1944

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Colonization - General. -- 1910-1944. -- Consists of interim report of Advisory Board on Land Utilization (1944); report on relation of irrigation to community development (1935); map of land sold up to 1910; and reports on colonization.

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History of Irrigation - General. -- 1913-1954. -- Consists of report on irrigation in Alberta; lecture notes of W.L. Jacobson on irrigation history; brief history of Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District (1925).

Irrigation Committee. -- 1958. -- Consists of report of the Irrigation Study Committee to the government 91958); briefs presented at the hearings; and brief by Farmers' Union of Alberta (FUA) of Enchant, Alberta.

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Wilson Commission. -- 1930. -- Consists of report of the hearings held by LNID Commission; and newspaper clippings on text of Wilson Commission report.

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Meek Committee. -- 1941-1942. -- Consists of reports on St. Mary and Milk Rivers Water Development.

South Saskatchewan River Development - General correspondence. -- 1944-1960

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South Saskatchewan River Development. -- 1944-1959. -- Consists of miscellaneous correspondence; report on irrigation on the Canadian prairies; map of maximum irrigable land in the Elrose-Saskatoon Irrigation Project; and statistics on wheat yields.

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South Saskatchewan River Development - Minutes and speeches. -- 1947-1959

South Alberta Water Conservation Council. -- 1945. -- Consists of correspondence with federal government ministers and Members of Parliament re St. Mary River dam development. Includes replies from F.W. Gershaw, J.R. MacNicol, and others.

South Alberta Water Conservation Council. -- 1946-1947. -- Consists of correspondence re origin of SAWCC, including interviews with Lethbridge Board of Trade, H.W. Pope; replies from prominent men connected with irrigation, as well as federal and provincial ministers. See file M-3761-313 above for index of names.

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South Alberta Water Conservation Council. -- 1946. -- Consists of correspondence of Roi Risinger to prominent men connected with irrigation. See file M-3761-313 above for index of names.

Engineering Institute of Canada. -- 1940-1960. -- Consistsof report on western water problems (1940); conference papers on silt deposition and erosion in tidal rivers of the Bay of Fundy (1959); planning and design of irrigation distribution systems.

Alberta Special Areas. -- n.d. -- Consists of maps of Tilley East showing areas reserved for community pasture.

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Experimental Farms Service. -- 1915, 1952-1960. -- Consists of minutes of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture Liaison Committee (1952-1953); letter to Superintendent of Irrigation re selection of farmers and crop system for experimenation (1915); research highlights and resume of work done at Lethbridge Experimenatl Station (1956-1957); and newspaper clippings.

National committees on irrigation and drainage. -- 1907, 1958-1961. -- Consists of proceedings of the Irrigation Forum (1959); papers on irrigation and drainage in the tropics; and program of irrigation convention.

Duty of Water - Brookes, Ronalane, Strathmore and Coaldale. -- 1913-1930. -- Consists of reporst on duty of water investigations; outline of experiments at Brooks Irrigation Experimental Station (1930); newspaper clippings re experiments at Strathmore; and contour maps of Ronalane Plot Area.

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Irrigation Extension Demonstrations. -- 1923-1924. -- Consists of letters from farmers to W.H. Snelson re work done on their farms.

Company organizations. -- 1906-1961

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Canadian Pacific Railway, Department of Natural Resources. -- 1906-1960. -- Consists of information about the Eastern Irrigation section; letters to W.L. Jacobson re CPR land; newspaper clippings; map showing land for sale in Alberta (1935); and albums of life in the west.

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Royal Bank of Canada - Monthly newsletters. -- 1951, 1961

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Calgary and Edmonton Railways - Map of lands in Alberta. -- 1891

Canada - General. -- 1878-1953

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Sundry reports. -- 1878-1963. -- Consits of various speeches including a historical survey on the development of irrigation in Alberta; reports of proceedings of irrigation conferences; list of library publications of PFRA, Vauxhall; data sheets and memos re irrigation development on the Canadian prairies; and newspaper clippings re irrigation.

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Land classification data graphs for Youngstown area. -- 1957

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Film criticism - W.L. Jacobson's comments re the film Land in Trust. -- 1949

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Irrigation maps and sketches of projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan. -- n.d.

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Speeches re wildlife and water development projects. -- 1946

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References and list of books on water development and conservation.

United States of America and foreign countries. -- 1897-1950

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Foreign and American reports. -- 1897-1950. -- Consists of speeches and reports of meetings; reports of trip to western USA (1950); and newspaper clippings re irrigation.

William Pearce-Red Deer River project. -- 1921-1960. -- Consists of estimate of land suitable for irrigation; maps of project; William Pearce Stock Watering proposal (1937); memoand tables re water supply on North Saskatchewan project.

Power development. -- 1944-1950. -- Consists of correspondence of Power Commission, including minutes of meeting of Canadian Utilities Ltd. and Alberta Power Commission; aritcle re power controversy; Professor Stewart's report about re-financing of Calgary Power Company.

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Power development. -- 1934-1962. -- Consists of reports of electrification and proposed water development associated with irrigation expansion; and newspaper clippings.

Saskatchewan irrigation. -- 1937-1942. -- Consists of correspondence and reports re Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA); correspondence of John Vallance Sr., Rehabilitation Officer for agricultural production; expenditures statement on large water projects (1938); memo re pasture development and land settlement (1942); reports on small community projects; and the Saskatchewan Land Utilization Act.

Saskatchewan irrigation. -- n.d. -- Consists of application of various Saskatchewan municipalities to the province for irrigation projects. Includes applications from Willows, Wood River, Waskana, Middle Creek and Swift Current.

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Saskatchewan irrigation. -- 1937-1948. -- Consists of reports on re-classification of land based on suitability for wheat production (1937); economic classification of land and its relation to farm income (1939-1940; Elrose Saskatoon Irrigation Project (1944); soil survey report (1937); and Maple Creek and Eastend Irrigation Projects (1948).

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Saskatchewan irrigation. -- 1945-1946. -- Consists of record of Dominion-Provincial Conference on reconstruction.

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Saskatchewan irrigation. -- 1935-1939. -- Consists of miscellany, including cross-section of I.T. Wilson dam at Maple Creek; map of Spruce Woods Forest Reserve; paper on forms of relief in Saskatchewan; pamphlet on development of irrigation in the province (1939); land utilization studies; and report of sub-committee of Water Resources and Conservation.

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Saskatchewan irrigation. -- 1941-1960. -- Consists of minutes of Committee of the Privy Council (1941); minutes and reports of annual meeting of Saskatchewan Industrial Development Board (1944); and report on 11th annual irrigaton tour to Alberta.

Miscellaneous. -- 1887-1948. -- Consists of correspondence from various ranchers and settlers tot he Irrigation Commissioner, inquiring about irrigation.

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Miscellaneous. -- 1900-1916. -- Consists of report re subsidies paid to St. Mary's River Railway (1900-1905) and to the Alberta Central Railway Company (1913-1916); subsidies paid by the Dominion Government to various railways.

Miscellaneous. -- Consists of outline of W.L. Jacobson's project. Includes alphabetical index cards to personalities and a letter from Mr. Jacobson to Glenbow Archivist Hugh Dempsey re how and what he was to collect.

Irrigation pioneers and personalities. -- 1888-1964. -- The series consists of biographical material, personal papers and recorded interviews with people involved in irrigation. -- Arranged in alphabetical order by name.

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"Some Personalities Associated with the Development of Irrigation on the Canadian Prairies" by W.L. Jacobson. -- [ca. 1959-1960]. -- 32 pages. -- Includes his notes and reference materials.

W.H. Fairfield - Reports. -- 1930 and 1946. -- Consists of pictorial booklet of Community Progress Competitions (1930); and report about irrigation and drainage progress and problems in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1946).

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W.H. Fairfield - Speeches and interviews. -- 1920-1961. -- Includes "The History and Progress of Irrigation around Lethbridge".

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W.H. Fairfield - Cards, invitations and certificates. -- 1911-1937

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W.H. Fairfield - Biographical newspaper clippings. -- 1911-1961

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W.H. Fairfield - Fairfield House in Ontario. -- 1899-1961

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W.H. Fairfield - Irrigation newspaper clippings. -- 1903-1960

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William H. Fairfield. -- Consists of certificate of Bachelor of Science; diploma recognizing literary attainment from State Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado (1894); and picture of the College's ground and buildings.

Herbert Hargrave. -- 1919, 1932 and 1958-1960. -- Consists of history of the Hargrave Ranch; Hargrave's brief to Irrigation Commission (1958); ranch organization and study; photographs of various districts; and plan of irrigation structure.

W.L. Jacobson. -- 1919-1956 and n.d. -- Consists of reports re sprinkler research in Canada; development of small irrigation projects on the prairies (1938); Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) map; correspondence re PFRA; and copies of his radio broadcasts.

Christian Jensen. -- 1919, 1950 and n.d. -- Consists of biographical sketch; speech on why we want irrigation as adjunct to dryland farming; and newspaper clippings about a family reunion at Waterton Park.

Benjamin Russell. -- 1935, 1943-1959. -- Consists of data on North Saskatchewan Project (1943); summary of Dominion-Provincial negotiations on irrigation development in Alberta; and progress report on St. Mary-Milk River Project (1949).

Dr. Leonard Baden Thomson (1900-1956). -- 1948 and 1960. -- Consists of a biograhical sketch; history of the Riverside Ranching Company; list of articles, radio and press statements (1948-1956); and an article about Mr. Thomson as Director of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PRFA).

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Leonard Thomson - Personal correspondence. -- 1917-1958. -- Includes a record of his university grades, and letters of recommendation.